“La syntaxe est une faculté de l’ame.” So opens ‘The Bird Dove’, with a Paul Valéry quotation, in the French. One of my favourites of the contradictory things Walter Benjamin says about translation is: “all translation is only a somewhat provisional way of coming to terms with the foreignness of language.” This isn’t merely relevant … Continue reading Tomaž Šalamun, Soy Realidad (Dalkey Archive Press) €9.00, reviewed by Joey Frances